Thank you for that question.
As the Chief of the Air Staff has already stated here this morning, we looked at a representative distance, understanding that Canada has, between it and most of our future operations, oceans. We took the representative distance from Trenton to somewhere in Europe--in this case the specific number is from Trenton to Ramstein--as being an appropriate minimum acceptable distance. To determine the 39 metric tonnes, that is the weight of two combat-ready LAV III vehicles; we considered that as a representative load, and the minimum acceptable representative load.
